It's an outrage! Moving company hires buff-bodied beauties :(

[samhexum]

A California-based moving company that boasts about its young, buff employees is being sued by the federal government for age discrimination.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against Meathead Movers for violating age-discrimination law by not hiring enough older workers, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Since launching in 1997, the Fresno-based company’s mission has been to hire student-athletes. Its social media posts show its youthful, muscled employees lifting weights and lifting boxes.

The employees, dubbed “Meatheads,” annually face off against each other in the Meathead Olympics, racing to assemble and leap over boxes. 

During moves, workers are required to run from the moving truck to the home when they’re empty-handed, according to the Journal.

The company states on its website that its “founding principle is to support athletes working in pursuit of their dream career path and that will never change.“

Meathead Movers executives deny that they discriminate against older workers, claiming the job is simply too demanding for those not in tip-top shape.

“We are 100% open to hiring anyone at any age if they can do the job,” company owner Aaron Steed (that's his porn name, right?) told the Journal. “People love working at Meathead, or they are turned off by how hard it is. You have to move furniture and run to get more.”

The EEOC, chaired by Charlotte Burrows, alleges that Meathead Movers’ marketing and hiring practices discourage older workers from applying, WSJ reported. Current employees are asked to seek new potential hires at local gyms and colleges, the agency claims.

The agency told the outlet that discouragement bias can be present in job ads, marketing materials and intrusive job application questions, like asking about a student’s class schedule.

EEOC has been looking into the company since 2017 on its own and did not stem from a complaint as most of its investigations are. Last year, it received more than 70,000 complaints and filed 91 employment discrimination lawsuits, according to the newspaper.

The two sides tried to negotiate a settlement, with the agency demanding $15 million before lowering that to about $5 million, according to internal emails reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.

Meathead countered with a $750,000 offer to settle. The EEOC filed the suit in September.

“We had no idea we were doing anything wrong by being a moving company that hires a lot of student-athletes,” Steed told WSJ.

“We want to change and evolve, but we can’t agree to go out of business doing it.”

Burrows was appointed chair of the EEOC by President Biden. Since Democrats took control of the agency in August, commissioners have since voted seven times on age discrimination matters. They voted on age issues just three times this year before that.

She has vowed to enforce age-discrimination laws regarding age bias as nearly a quarter of the country’s workforce is aged 55 and older, and the agency appears to be aggressively pursuing age-discrimination cases.

According to the Labor Department, the number of seniors over the age of 65 in the workforce will grow by a third over the next 10 years.

The Post has reached out to the EEOC for comment on the lawsuit.

Advocates for older Americans lauded the agency taking on age discrimination.

“Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is over 50. I’m pretty sure he would be good at moving boxes,” Bill Alvarado Rivera, senior vice president for litigation at AARP, an association for the rights of older people, told the Journal.

“That kind of stereotype about who could be a good mover has no place in an economy that values individuals.” 

 

“Meatheads” are required to run from the moving truck to the home when they’re empty-handed.

https://nypost.com/2023/12/09/news/meathead-movers-sued-by-feds-for-age-discrimination/

 

 

 

 

Edited December 10, 2023 by samhexum
for absolutely NO @%!*ING reason at all!

[+ sniper]

The reality is even many in shape 40 or 50 somethings have markedly less capacity for physical labor, as evidence by the fact most movers everywhere are pretty young and they find other jobs after a couple of years. How about going after the corporations that shove office workers out just as they hit the age they're likely to really need that group health insurance and affect the bottom line?

 

[Ali Gator]

There's an easy solution for the company. Hire the 'older men' and employ them in the office - taking appointments and scheduling deliveries, or any other jobs in the company which doesn't involve the daily operation of 'moving' (which they want to keep for their buff college kids).

A restaurant in my area has been open for decades, and always has a staff of young, handsome sexy guys for their waitstaff, busboys and bartenders. It's what they are known for since the 80s. To get around any 'discrimination' lawsuits, they hire plenty of women and older people and have them work in the kitchen or the office. It satisfies labor laws / anti-discrimination issues in our state, and the restaurant can continue with their hunky buff male servers. 

[Hot4latin]

11 minutes ago, Ali Gator said:

There's an easy solution for the company. Hire the 'older men' and employ them in the office - taking appointments and scheduling deliveries, or any other jobs in the company which doesn't involve the daily operation of 'moving' (which they want to keep for their buff college kids).

A restaurant in my area has been open for decades, and always has a staff of young, handsome sexy guys for their waitstaff, busboys and bartenders. It's what they are known for since the 80s. To get around any 'discrimination' lawsuits, they hire plenty of women and older people and have them work in the kitchen or the office. It satisfies labor laws / anti-discrimination issues in our state, and the restaurant can continue with their hunky buff male servers. 

That’s what Disney did years ago. Disney has a history or strict standards for all of their guest-facing positions. Height, weight, facial hair, tattoos were all under scrutiny. That's partly why they refer to their employees as cast members. They’re playing a role, similar to an actor, first. The labor they provide is a secondary function. Anyone who didn’t fit that ideal was relegated to behind the scenes and out of view to the guests. 

[Ali Gator]

Just now, Hot4latin said:

That’s what Disney did years ago. Disney has a history or strict standards for all of their guest-facing positions. Height, weight, facial hair, tattoos were all under scrutiny. That's partly why they refer to their employees as cast members. They’re playing a role, similar to an actor, first. The labor they provide is a secondary function. Anyone who didn’t fit that ideal was relegated to behind the scenes and out of view to the guests. 

And I believe there's nothing wrong with that. 

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

3 hours ago, Ali Gator said:

There's an easy solution for the company. Hire the 'older men' and employ them in the office - taking appointments and scheduling deliveries, or any other jobs in the company which doesn't involve the daily operation of 'moving' (which they want to keep for their buff college kids).

A restaurant in my area has been open for decades, and always has a staff of young, handsome sexy guys for their waitstaff, busboys and bartenders. It's what they are known for since the 80s. To get around any 'discrimination' lawsuits, they hire plenty of women and older people and have them work in the kitchen or the office. It satisfies labor laws / anti-discrimination issues in our state, and the restaurant can continue with their hunky buff male servers. 

Great solution.  It reminds me of "Separate But Equal" that was thrown out in the mid-20th century, but I see it all the time in corporations today where each Department is a majority one ethnicity or gender or age but the company as a whole is considered diverse.

[+ sniper]

I just fail to see how this is any different from Hooters...

[samhexum]

19 hours ago, samhexum said:

It's an outrage! 

That nobody (including me) noticed my headline originally said It's an outage! 

[Ali Gator]

3 hours ago, Vegas_Millennial said:

Great solution.  It reminds me of "Separate But Equal" that was thrown out in the mid-20th century, but I see it all the time in corporations today where each Department is a majority one ethnicity or gender or age but the company as a whole is considered diverse.

Sometimes you need a 'work around' for an easy solution to a nonsensical problem.

[+ FreshFluff]

16 hours ago, Ali Gator said:

There's an easy solution for the company. Hire the 'older men' and employ them in the office - taking appointments and scheduling deliveries, or any other jobs in the company which doesn't involve the daily operation of 'moving' (which they want to keep for their buff college kids).

A restaurant in my area has been open for decades, and always has a staff of young, handsome sexy guys for their waitstaff, busboys and bartenders. It's what they are known for since the 80s. To get around any 'discrimination' lawsuits, they hire plenty of women and older people and have them work in the kitchen or the office. It satisfies labor laws / anti-discrimination issues in our state, and the restaurant can continue with their hunky buff male servers. 

Most people applying for moving jobs want reliable hourly wages. The office positions at moving companies are mostly commission-based sales jobs, so they won't fit the bill. 

[BonVivant]

The Left woke DEI brigade always love to ruin things. 

[Just Chuck]

On 12/10/2023 at 3:16 PM, sniper said:

I just fail to see how this is any different from Hooters...

I was just about to say the same.  I have a friend who looked into opening a hooters-like restaurant.  He learned that Hooters does not hire waitresses. Instead, Hooters hires "models who serve" and that's in the hiring advertising and paperwork.  He said that you can hire models based upon their appearance.

[BuffaloKyle]

On 12/9/2023 at 10:20 PM, samhexum said:

“Meatheads” are required to run from the moving truck to the home when they’re empty-handed.

That policy sounds pretty risky as well. If a guy is full speed running and trips and gets injured I would think he could easily have a case against the company then for being negligent and putting him in an unsafe environment.

[BonVivant]

4 hours ago, Just Chuck said:

I was just about to say the same.  I have a friend who looked into opening a hooters-like restaurant.  He learned that Hooters does not hire waitresses. Instead, Hooters hires "models who serve" and that's in the hiring advertising and paperwork.  He said that you can hire models based upon their appearance.

Well! I hire models all of the time!! 🤭😜😜😈

[BonVivant]

2 hours ago, BuffaloKyle said:

That policy sounds pretty risky as well. If a guy is full speed running and trips and gets injured I would think he could easily have a case against the company then for being negligent and putting him in an unsafe environment.

Workers Comp claim. 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️

[BuffaloKyle]

1 hour ago, BonVivant said:

Workers Comp claim. 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️

Not only that but could sue for punitive damages as well.

[Guest]

Not likely

[TorontoDrew]

I hate moving and find it very stressful.   Having some eye candy as movers would make the day better.

[+ FreshFluff]

Every time I see those Hunks Moving Junk signs on a roadway medians, I feel terrible for the movers. I imagine a 50something male customer angrily calling customer service to complain that his movers aren't hunks. The movers, who are tired and sweaty after a long move, hear the call and feel sad and helpless. 

I prefer the name Meathead Movers, which promises only that your movers will not start quoting Balzac. 

[samhexum]

5 hours ago, FreshFluff said:

I see those Hunks Moving Junk signs on a roadway medians

I prefer Hunks With Moving Junk